I have seen this issue posted a few times but there does not appear to be a solution for what I am seeing. I have a paginated SSRS report that requires a date input from the drop-down calendar. Upon entering, say, January 21st 2020, the UI is then displaying the date chosen as 1/21/2020, for example here. I need it to be 21/01/2020. Some points of note:
* all location settings for both the report server and the client browser are set to English (United Kingdom) and all date format settings are set to dd/mm/yyyy within the Windows settings on both the report server and client machine. All client browser language settings are English-UK in both IE and Chrome
* the variable is a DateTime data type
* this is a paginated SSRS report being displayed on a Power BI host server
* this is affecting all reports on this server
* the date field is not necessarily returned in the report, so converting the data is not applicable here.
* PBI version 15, SQL Server 2016
I have seen responses talking about expressing the field into the correct format, eg =CDate(Fields!BirthDate.Value) or =FormatDateTime(Fields!BirthDate.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate) however this does not appear to change anything (when it doesn't error).
I'm at a total loss as to where this Americanization of the date is coming from. Any thoughts?
Unfortunately, the report server's location settings and the user's browser's location settings don't (by default) do anything to the report formats because the report has its own Language property that is set by default to en-US. So unless you modify this property, you are always going to get US formats. You access this property on the report's Property panel.
Now you could set it to en-UK but a better solution is to set it to the user's internationali[s|z]ation setting by using =User!Language. Now you can use d as the cell Format property for the user's regional short date format.
Handy formats that use the user's regional formats are:
d = short date format
N2 = number with 2 decimal places
N0 = number with no decimal places
P0 = percent with no decimal places
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I am getting the above error whenever I try to run the report. My region settings are set to date format "dd-MM-yyyy', the calendar control displays the date in that format as expected but when I run the report I get the above error. I have checked tregion settings, made sure the report language property is set to the correct regional language (in this case en-ZA) but the report still seems to expect the date in American format and only works when I manually enter the date in American format instead of selecting via the calendar control which returns it in regional format.
Anyone know why it would return this error when it seems that all the date formats are set the same both on the machine and within the report?
Report SSRS in window 10 and open from IE 11
my computer filter date not working (not show image calendars)
How to fixed .
thank you.
Expanding on WEI_DBA, it looks like you need to set the default value of your Start Date parameter to ="3/16/2017 0:00:00" since your date format has months and days reversed.
Note that this can be confusing when you have a server with a different region setting than your workstation. The report is fine to develop locally and will then generate this error when deployed to your server.
In the parameter pane, right-click on Start Date and select Parameter Properties. Find "Data Type:" in the middle of the dialog and change the drop down to be Date/Time. Do the same for End date.
A date/time parameter will will show the date picker and will ensure you are passing a properly structured date value into your dataset query, regardless of your culture/language settings.
Working on an SSRS in BIDS 2005 and I'm creating a chart that shows money values, in USD. How can I format using the Format code?
Normally the report server uses the format that it has for its regional settings but you can change this to use the user's regional settings.
On the report properties, in the Language property set it to:
=User!Language
Then use the international formatting codes throughout your report. In your example, C2 will give you the appropriate currency format (usually with a leading dollar sign, commas, and two decimal places) in the way the user expects to see it. Other examples are:
N0 Number with commas and no decimal places
P1 Percentage with one decimal place
d Short date format
If you use [Currency] as the format code, you should have the data displayed with the currency sign of the current locale (which is USD, assuming the user runs this on a computer with US locale).
Thea above did not work. The solution - according to the comment - was to use $#.00 as the format string.
I converted an older Access app to 2007, and now the date formatting in editable textboxes is not working. The format I'm using is mm/dd/yy, but the date is displaying with a 4-digit year.
I've tried other formats just for testing, eg mmm/d/yy - they display correctly except for the year which insists on being 4 digits.
This appears to be a new 'wrinkle' in A2007 - has anyone found a way around this?
I see something different on my system. With an ACCDB format database and a textbox format set to mm/dd/yy, today's date displays as 10/03/10.
It appears that if the checkbox for "Use four-digit year formatting" for "This database" is checked, Access uses 4 digits for the year regardless of the control's format property. To find that setting, click the Office Button, then Access Options -> Advanced and scroll down to the General heading.
I have a webi report that accepts a date input.
I need to receive data from the user in the format "dd-Mmm-YYYY"; however the calendar control that BO presents to the user for date selection is always shown in M/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM/PM.
Is there any way to control this behaviour?
Have you tried changing all the date fields in the Universe designer to the format that you want? You can either format them using SQL in the select statement box of the "Object Properties", or you can change the format of the field by right clicking and selecting "Object Format..."
I'm pretty sure that would affect the way the end user sees it.
you can set the date format (and all other format ) on the locatizion parametrs on the user setting for each user you have in cms , simply by the infoview preferences for each user .
home screen of central management -> preferences - > Preferred Viewing Locale + local time zone.
or
home screen of infoview -> preferences - > Preferred Viewing Locale + local time zone.
this will set also the date prompt format
There's another option.
On the BO server there's a javascript file that is used to create the calendar popup.
..\Tomcat55\webapps\AnalyticalReporting\viewers\cdz_adv\lib\calendar.js
Inside this file there's a function called CTFB_setFormatInfo which if passed a date format uses it ... if not there's seems to be a hard coded default of "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a".
I'm pretty certain this is not updated by the other dozen ways to set the date format found in BO (user prefs, prn file, object properties ect).
function CTFB_setFormatInfo(format,arrDays,arrMonth,AM,PM)
{
var o=this
o.arrMonthNames=arrMonth?arrMonth:_month
o.arrDayNames=arrDays?arrDays:_day
o.format=format?format:"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"
o.AM=AM?AM:_AM
o.PM=PM?PM:_PM
}
I just updated this file - and now I get consistent dd/mm/yyyy - without pesky mm/dd/yyyy randomly turning up when the preference isn't passed through.